Beyond Life and Death
I don't own Danny Phantom.
Chapter 12: Breaking Through.
Maddie and Jack stood at the top of the staircase the next day. In only a few minutes, they would lead a strike on the ghost shrine over the city and stop the Necromancer's plans. Their weapons had been loaded into the Fenton Hovercraft. However, Jack still had his Jack-of-Nine-Tales on him and Maddie had her energy staff on her as well.
"Here we go," Jack said.
"Wait," Maddie stated.
"What?"
"Are you sure about this?"
"Am I sure? Let's see: Ghosts are everywhere, people are being used for a crazed ritual, and we are humanities last hope. I'm pretty sure. Aren't you?"
Maddie didn't answer. She just let out a sigh.
"Danny, right?"
She nodded her head in reply.
"Look. No matter how it looks, there's no way that can be Danny. Danny passed on and that's that," Jack said.
"But what if we're wrong? What if Danny's back but he's under the Necromancer's control? You heard what Desiree said yesterday."
"I know fully well what she said and it does seem like the truth. Maybe Danny is now a ghost and under this guy's control. For all I know, it could have been a lie. It could be an illusion of Danny to mess us around. Or, maybe Danny has turned-"
"Don't say that! Danny wouldn't do something like that even by his own free will!"
"Still, it's starting to seem like that."
Maddie was beginning to see that Jack had made a point. Everything was starting to look more and more like reality. Danny turning to the side of evil and thinking this plan up did seem too impossible to fathom. Yet, it had happened. Even in Maddie's mind, she was starting to believe this. And she still fought it off with strong resistance.
"I get that idea sometimes Jack. But, I still can't believe that."
"I understand. Danny is always a good kid in our eyes. Still, we can't let him go along with this plan."
"Do you think it's possible to knock him back to his senses?"
"Judging by everything that has happened, I say anything is possible."
The two then began there journey down to the basement, the outcome of Danny's fate still hanging on their mind. They felt like the walk to theSpecter Speederwas took them almost an hour. It was like they were going, but something was sort of pushing them back. They still made it to the lab though. TheSpeeder was right were it should be: in the middle of the room and ready to go. And right next to it was Desiree, still locked up in the chair.
"Good morning," Desiree said to the Fentons and gave them a smile. "So, today is such a good day to storm a heavily armed citadel, no?"
"You bet," Jack said as he walked over to his desk and grabbed a small disk. He then walked over to Desiree and latched it onto the back of her neck.
"What was that?" she asked.
"The disk my husband latched onto you is a miniaturized Ecto-Bomb. It can be set off by remote control or if you're stupid enough to try and rip it off. Any attempts at crewing us over and we blow you to kingdom come." Maddie said. She then pushed a button on the wall and the latches around Desiree came off.
"Will you be doing this to your other crew members?" Desiree asked as she floated off the ground and crossed her arms in front of her chest.
"What other-?" jack stopped himself upon realizing what Desiree meant. He went to theside of the Speederand grabbed the handle that opened the door to the cargo hold/extra passenger seats. He slid it open to encounter Sam, Tucker, and Jazz in the chairs amiss the weaponry.
"This better be a joke," Maddie stated as he joined her husband.
"No joke here," Tucker said.
"Doesn't matter. I want you kids back upstairs."
"We're coming with you."
"Chance in hell you are," Jack said.
"We have to help. We have to fight," Jazz said.
"All you have to do is waiting here for us to handle the situation."
We waited all we can and its time you get some help," Tucker said.
"We don't need your help," Maddie said.
"Look around. Almost everyone in this town either got out or is dead. We're pretty much the only ones left. We need to make a stand. We know this is your area but you need all the assistance you can get," Sam said.
"I don't want kids getting killed," Jack said.
"Well, a lot have all ready gotten killed pretty much," Jazz said.
"That doesn't chance our view! You kids are too important to die! What will everyone you care about think?" Maddie asked.
"That we protected this town and saved the lives of countless people like someone you know would want. And that someone, even if he were gone, would fight. We are going with you no matter what!" Sam yelled.
She was half expecting to say Danny's name during that argument. Due to the circumstances at hand, there were some things that were just to confusing to say. Whether Danny was good or evil now was just too much to talk over. The important thing was that he protected lives and that was just what Sam and the others wanted to do. After them and the Fentons just looked at one another for a few minutes, Jack sighed and said," Buckle in and do as we say when we get to ground zero." He the closed the door as he heard their silent cries of victory.
"Family problems?" Desiree asked as the two Fentons got to either side of the craft."
"Just shut up and follow orders," Jack said as he climbed into the driver's seat and Maddie got in next to him. He placed his hand on the activation button, but then his wife placed her hand over his.
"We're in this together. All of us," she said.
Jack smiled as he looked at her and then call out to Desiree," You know the routine."
Desiree put her hand on the Fenton's vehicle and said, "Got it."
The Fentons, with her hands still touching and over the ignition, pressed the button down. A hum rose from below the hovercraft as it started to rise up. In response, Desiree turned invisible, and with her hand still pressed on the hovercraft, it too turned invisible. Desiree and the vehicle then passed through the ceiling of the lab, up through the Fenton household, and finally based up through the roof and into the night air. Desiree then canceled out the invisibility on herself and the vehicle. The vehicle also stopped the humming emitting from its underbelly and now its back engines were now emitted a pulsating green color. The vehicle then shot forward towards the ghost fortress with Desiree following next to it.
Through the windows in the cargo hold, the Sam and the others could get a full view of what the two Fentons and Desiree was witnessing. The city was dead. Not literally dead with bodies everywhere, but dead in another sense. There were no cars moving up and down the streets, no people going along the sidewalks, no traffic lights working, not even a stray dog was about. It had become a ghost town. And to top it all off, there was that barrier around the entire city. They looked out as a toxic green curtain blocked the blue sky out. Occasionally, the barrier would flash with explosions of red and green, indicating that the military was still continuing the hopeless assault on the shield, which showed no signs of being destroyed. Except, there was one problem. Unlike the previous day, there were none of Walker's soldiers hovering around the city.
"I wonder what's with the lack of security?" Jack asked as he steered the ship towards Walker's prison.
"Must be on a luchbreak," Maddie remarked.
Just then, Jack put the put on the ship's brakes. They were now in front of Walker's prison complex. Hovering over the city, it was a new addition that only made the scene look more menacing. Adding to it was the Babylonian structure hovering over the complex. It was there that humans went in, but didn't come out. But it was hard to see these two buildings with the green energy shield around it.
Desiree looked in at the Fentons and motioned her hand to the shield. Jack nodded and watched her move in front of the vehicle. Desiree then began to mutter words under her breath and then outstretch her hands. She then quickly brought them together and shot out a huge yellow beam. It struck the shield, causing ripples to spread out from where the beam had made contact. She could fell her beam being pushed back against her, but she kept her strength in order to break the shield. Finally, the shield began to stretch out from the beam. After a few more seconds, she stopped firing and reviled a hole big enough for the Fenton'sSpeeder to get through. Of course, she wouldn't join them for in no time as she stopped using her beam, then a barrage of Ecto beams hit her. They tore through her body and she dropped out of the sky.
"Sucks to beher!"Jack yelled as he hit a green button above the steering wheel. This activated the shield around the hovercraft, making the beams bounce off of it harmlessly. With the defenses on, the hovercraft went full throttle into the base. Little did anyone know that the shield had restored itself, sealing the hole and trapping everyone inside of the hellhole.
The assault has begun. Who will be triumphant? Chapter 13 is coming soon.